Word: stalled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rating for Schröder's Social Democratic Party (spd) has fallen to a dismal 31% from 35% since January, while the cdu's has increased from 37% to 44% over the same period. With national elections 18 months away, the spd are worried that the sputtering economy could stall the re-election campaign before it starts. Schröder can't afford to alienate his union base, and he can't push through more reforms alone - the opposition controls the upper house of parliament. Yet if Schröder doesn't solve the unemployment problem soon...
...chilling scandal in late November: Amnesty International issued a 93-page report detailing 74 deaths in the U.S. and Canada of people who had been hit with a Taser, and calling for a moratorium on the weapons until more independent medical-safety studies were conducted. Yet after a brief stall, Taser's stock continued its upward climb, hitting an all-time high...
...funny. An article on the high-brow world of polo players was titled “Polo Is My Life: Fear and Loathing in Horse Country.” In the opening section, he describes being trapped in a stall while his ‘Uncle Lawless’ beats a rabid horse with a two-by-four; the horse “commit[s] suicide” by biting the trigger on Lawless?...
...young man's alleged talk that he was ready to kill the President, by either shooting him in the street or setting off a car bomb. But like a number of other high-profile U.S. terrorism prosecutions since 9/11 that have grabbed big headlines only to quietly fizzle or stall in trial--from alleged terrorist flight student Zacarias Moussaoui and accused dirty bomber Jose Padilla to the Detroit sleeper cell and former enemy combatant Yaser Hamdi--the case against Abu Ali may not play out so dramatically. "He fell in with some bad people but probably never did much himself...
...Ngan isn't worried about bird flu. In a Phnom Penh market stall encrusted with chicken excrement, the 30-year-old Cambodian sells live birds shipped fresh each morning from farms that border Vietnamese provinces that have been struck hard by the disease. But Ngan is confident her merchandise is safe. Her chickens "are exposed to the sunlight and can eat from the earth," she explains, "so the disease does not affect them." Besides, she adds, "only foreign chickens are affected, not the local ones...